Word: overheards
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...herself supplanted by Lotus, a pretty but sterile harlot-mistress. Wang Lung's sons grew up to disappoint him. He was proud of their superior education but grieved that they cared nothing for the good earth from which their fortune had sprung. Just before his death he overheard them planning to sell his old farm, the only thing he really loved...
...Tillie, he made dishonorable proposals of marriage to two other women. As luck and the author would have it, Tillie's old lover turned up at this point, and just as the humiliation of being actually in love was threatening to bring Jo to a normal level, he overheard a conversation which even a cleverer man would have understood. When his consequent breakdown, complicated with influenza, failed to bring him Death, he married faithful Alice-leaving the story a sadder, much less interesting...
...After first refusing to hear her, the Temperance Council finally cracked open its doors to her, closed it again, listened for two hours while she used all her legal and oratorical talents explaining, declaiming, answering questions about her new job. "What about those big wine kegs?" one delegate was overheard to ask. "They're grape juice kegs," snapped back Fruit Industries' smart lawyer. "The company uses them in lieu of smaller containers still unavailable...
...between them have popularized the one-line joke (e. g.-a man driving a car pulls up beside a huge truck half on its side in a ditch, inquires politely: ''Tip over?"). ''Peter Arno may not have been the first to make use of the overheard remark as a basis for a drawing, but he has made himself the High Priest of the school by now. ... To see one of Peter Arno's illustrations of a one-line observation made by a dowager in a theater lobby or a young man in a porch hammock...
...Manhattan. A Dutchman struggling against storm and wind to round the Cape of Good Hope once swore that he would make it if he had to keep sailing until the Day of Judgment. The Devil overheard him, condemned him to just such a fate unless he could find a woman who would love him faithfully. There after every seventh year the Dutchman was permitted to go ashore to hunt a liberator. But the rest of the time he wearily sailed the seas until all the Norseland came to know of the white-faced wanderer and his phantom ship with...